A friend sent this item my way with the question: “Do you think he’ll convert after he leaves office?” I suppose anything is possible. It does seem that the president enjoys hanging out with nuns and priests and assorted Catholics, doesn’t it? Read on: Immersed for two days in the intense and arcane world of…

Two great stories about the gift of giving caught my eye recently. The first came last night on the CBS Evening News — a broadcast with which I have some passing familiarity, cough, cough — and was about a bank in North Dakota that gave its employees a thousand dollar bonus for Christmas. But with…

Zillionaire Thomas Monaghan, founder of Domino’s Pizza and the new Ave Maria University, has thrown his support to Mitt Romney for president: “It is an honor for me to endorse Governor Mitt Romney for President,” Monaghan said. “He is a proven leader and has demonstrated his effectiveness in multiple arenas – in his successful business…

Word from Florida about a novel way of promoting and praying for vocations — and it seems to be catching on: A new practice is spreading in the Diocese of Palm Beach and elsewhere around the nation: families allowed, one Sunday at a time, to take a chalice home after Mass for a week of…

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